Formal Description of Adaptable Interactive Systems Based on Reconfigurable User Interface Models

Author(s):  
Benjamin Weyers
Author(s):  
Marco Blumendorf ◽  
Grzegorz Lehmann ◽  
Dirk Roscher ◽  
Sahin Albayrak

The widespread use of computing technology raises the need for interactive systems that adapt to user, device and environment. Multimodal user interfaces provide the means to support the user in various situations and to adapt the interaction to the user’s needs. In this chapter we present a system utilizing design-time user interface models at runtime to provide flexible multimodal user interfaces. The server-based system allows the combination and integration of multiple devices to support multimodal interaction and the adaptation of the user interface to the used devices, the user and the environment. The utilization of the user interface models at runtime allows exploiting the design information for advanced adaptation possibilities. An implementation of the system has been successfully deployed in a smart home environment throughout the Service Centric Home project (www.sercho.de).


Author(s):  
José Matías Rivero ◽  
Gustavo Rossi ◽  
Julián Grigera ◽  
Juan Burella ◽  
Esteban Robles Luna ◽  
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1979 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Thimbleby

Technology comes in many forms, in particular ‘interactive’ and ‘not-so interactive’. Not all so-called interactive systems are interactive technology: they are not ‘good’ enough. In contrast to typical modern technology, interactive technology is responsibly passive and thereby reduces the opportunity for its users to form incorrect or misguided models of its operation. Passivity is not solely a property of the system design but is relative to the needs and actions of the users of the technology; it depends on the skills, expectations and understanding of the users. As a guide to implementors, passivity also reduces their opportunities to create systems that are obscure to users. It is suggested that a ‘parallel user-interface’, which is outlined, meets the requirements of interactive technology.


Author(s):  
Stefan Hennig ◽  
Jan Van den Bergh ◽  
Kris Luyten ◽  
Annerose Braune

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